Birmingham New Street Station: lnwrbns_str1768

Looking towards the East end of the station and New Street No 2 Signal Cabin from Platform 8 with numerous mail trollies evident on both platforms. The steps leading down from the footbridge to Platform 7 as seen in image 'lnwrbns_str406' can be seen on the left. The 'Midland side' of the station unlike the 'North Western side' remained undamaged by the Second World War and whilst it was dirty and very grimy from the smoke of the many locomotives using the station it still had a majesty that its 1960s successor could never match. The original station lasted nearly one hundred and ten years whilst in its enlarged form it lasted some eighty years. Its successor is due to be replaced after barely fifty years and would have disappeared long before had the money been available.

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